Westerly Batch Two
Wheatland Spring Farm + Brewery in Waterford, Virginia, United States 🇺🇸
Farmhouse - Saison Regular|
Score
6.85
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Piedmont Ale, 6%
Impressions of: orchard fruit, oak tannins, wildflower, spiced pear, breezy afternoon
INGREDIENTS
- Wheatland Spring Water
- Grains: 50% Estate-grown in our East Field; 100% Virginia
- Yeast: Estate-captured yeast in our West Field
- Hops: Old World
METHODS
- Open fermented
- Oak barrel aged for a year
- Bottle conditioned for months
Winds are powerful in their grace.
Our Wheatland community sits in the Piedmont region of the Appalachians and we get a good bit of wind every now and again. While the gusts arrive uninvited, the breezes are most welcome.
Enter Westerly, named for the winds that move across our farm. These winds that may well have carried the yeast we wild-captured in our West Field — the same yeast we used to open ferment this Piedmont Ale.
What’s Piedmont Ale?
Beer has a capacity to reflect the agricultural character of its place. And our place is the Piedmont region.
What makes this beer from here?
We drew water from the natural source on our farm and combined it with a grist of Virginia grains: half we grew at Wheatland Spring and the other half from another small farm nearby. The wort was open fermented in our barn loft with yeast native to our West Field that we wild-captured. Collectively, these ingredients and methods anchor this beer here, so it could only be a Piedmont Ale.
Want to know more about our approach to Land Beer? There’s a lot more info on our website.
Impressions of: orchard fruit, oak tannins, wildflower, spiced pear, breezy afternoon
INGREDIENTS
- Wheatland Spring Water
- Grains: 50% Estate-grown in our East Field; 100% Virginia
- Yeast: Estate-captured yeast in our West Field
- Hops: Old World
METHODS
- Open fermented
- Oak barrel aged for a year
- Bottle conditioned for months
Winds are powerful in their grace.
Our Wheatland community sits in the Piedmont region of the Appalachians and we get a good bit of wind every now and again. While the gusts arrive uninvited, the breezes are most welcome.
Enter Westerly, named for the winds that move across our farm. These winds that may well have carried the yeast we wild-captured in our West Field — the same yeast we used to open ferment this Piedmont Ale.
What’s Piedmont Ale?
Beer has a capacity to reflect the agricultural character of its place. And our place is the Piedmont region.
What makes this beer from here?
We drew water from the natural source on our farm and combined it with a grist of Virginia grains: half we grew at Wheatland Spring and the other half from another small farm nearby. The wort was open fermented in our barn loft with yeast native to our West Field that we wild-captured. Collectively, these ingredients and methods anchor this beer here, so it could only be a Piedmont Ale.
Want to know more about our approach to Land Beer? There’s a lot more info on our website.
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6.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 7
Bottle pour. Pours gold. Peach, lemon, apple, grain, very floral, herbal. Flat. Fine.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 May 2024
at 19:50
8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 7
750ml bottle pours a hazy, corn gold with some creamy, white head. Nose has some barrel and vanilla and corn, pineapple brulee, some lemon curd. Flavor has chardonnay and lemon curd and corn and honey and flowers. Finishes mostly dry, long finish. 8 4 8 5 14
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Jul 2022
at 12:07